PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• 7 years of Functional experience as SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (Releases, 4.6C through ECC 6.0) in corporate environment.
• Participated in Three Full Life cycle implementations, which included involvement in all phases of ASAP methodology, Solution Manager, i.e. Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Integration Test Runs, and Go-Live & Support. Feasibility Analysis, Documentation.
• Experience in Gap Analysis & Business Process Re-engineering.
• Analysis, Documentation and Interacting with users for Application, Implementation, Upgrade, Customization and Enhancements.
• Experienced with the Integration and Configuration aspect of FI-MM and FI-SD
• Posses Strong Communication Skills, Analytical and Functional skills.
• Worked in Tandem with Accounting Teams, Core SAP teams and other Internal Groups
• To prioritize and Implement system solutions and improve overall business.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and equally well adjusting to Team environment.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation lifecycle.

SAP R/3 SKILLS:

• Financial Accounting(FI): General Ledger(FI-GL),Accounts Receivable(FI-AR),Accounts Payable(FI-AP),Asset Management (FI-AM)andEC-CS(Consolidation).
• Controlling(CO): Cost Center accounting, Cost Element accounting, Internal orders, Product Costing(CO-PCP),Profitability Analysis(CO-PA)
• Gap analysis Configuring - FI/CO, testing and integration, Training, Documentation and Creation of reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP : SAP R/3 FI, CO - 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
Languages : C, SQL, HTML
Databases : Oracle 9i
O/S : Windows NT, Windows 2003
Web Tools : MS FrontPage
Office Tools : MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Masters in Commerceand Business Administration
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern, PA
Jul 08 - Till date
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• As a team member I was involved in all phases of Project Implementation.
• Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing Systems and business processes related to New GL, AA, AP, AR and CO.
• Business Blueprint Design, Conducted interviews Q&A database, interacted with Managers of various departments to gather the Business system requirements and prepared a Business Blueprint/Business Process Master List (BPML).
• Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be system (GAP analysis)
• Configured GL, AP (Accounts payable), AR (Accounts Receivables), and AA (Asset Accounting)
• In SAP-FI-GL, Configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year variants, document number ranges and field status groups.
• Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Chart of accounts, Global Companies, Company Codes, modification of FI document types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and FI trading partner validations.
• In Accounts Receivables (SAP-AR), Created Customer Master Data and master groups, Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. In Treasury Cash Management, Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments and Bank Reconciliation.
• Configured LSMW for uploading customer vendor master data.
• In Accounts Payable (SAP-AP), Created Vendor Master Data, Configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups. Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification. Customized accounting transactions for postings and recurring entries.
• In Asset accounting (SAP-AA), Created and configured Fixed Assets chart of depreciation keys, Asset classes and Account determination. Worked with asset classes and integration areas with other modules.
• Tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices, payments, document fast entry, G/L posting and recurring entry programs.
• Configured Controlling areas SAP-CO-OM (Overhead Cost Accounting) SAP-CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting) Internal Orders Settlements SAP-EC-PCA (Profit Center Accounting) SAP-CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) SAP-CO-PC (Product Costing)
• In SAP-CO Created Controlling area Operating concern maintained versions primary
  and secondary cost elements cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups
  Defined Cost Center Hierarchies activity types statistical key figures and reconciliation ledgers
• In SAP-CO-PC worked in coordination with Production planning team Master data structure in CO-PC Standard cost estimate from BOM Work center Product Cost Planning areas Cost Roll-up and Costing run.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the Integration between FI , SD and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• In SAP-CO-PA worked in coordination with SD MM and PP teams regarding pricing in defining condition types Condition tables Procedures and access sequence.
• In SAP-EC-PCA created Profit Center groups Dummy profit centers Profit center standard Hierarchies assigned objects to the profit centers.
• Tested the generation of reports using report writer and report painter.
• Developed Test cases and solve issues using Unit Testing and System testing.
• Assisted the team in designing the documentation and provided Go-Live Post implementation support.
  

Confidential Phoenix AZ
Dec 07 – Jun 08
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Participated in Configuration/Customization of FI modules including GL, AR, AP and AA.
• Prepared functional specifications for modification to the existing standard reports to client specific requirements.
• Outlined potential solutions and business impacts and addressed change requests for upgraded and new/additional functionality.
• Developed and deployed new processes and configuration to meet business needs.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements. Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records
• Collected and compiled the data from old legacy system and transferred it to SAP using BDCs and BAPI programs.
• Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Interest Calculation, Lockbox and Dunning.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Cash and Payment History.
• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.
• Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit Representatives and Intervals for Days in Arrears.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• In Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting implemented planning in Overhead Cost Controlling
• Provided production support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO users.
• Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and technical support teams.
• Providing guidance and understanding of day-to-day financial functions, improvements, changes, issues and translation into system configuration requirements, custom development solutions or business process changes.

Confidential, Avon Lake, OH
Sep 06 - Nov 07
Role: SAP FICO Business Analyst

• Participated in defining and analyzing the project objective, followed by gap analysis.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Defined Leading ledgers and non-Leading Ledgers and extracted reports out of both for management reporting using the table structures FAGLFLEXA and FAGLFLEXT.
• Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Chart of accounts, Global Companies, Company Codes, modification of FI document types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and FI trading partner validations.
• Participated in configuration of financial module including organization structures, business processes and configuring and maintenance of master data’s.
• Responsible for configuration of General Ledger master records, defining GL automatic clearing rules, assigning GL accounts for foreign currency valuation, setting up of number ranges, account groups, tolerance groups and field status groups.
• Participated in Configuration of Accounts Payable/ Accounts Receivable. Configured and maintained the vendor and customer master records.
• Defined new customer/ vendor account groups, defined client specific payment terms, vendor/ customer invoices, manual incoming/ outgoing payments, automatic payment program configuration, partial payments, payment proposal/ schedule, payment run, maintained terms of payment for cash discounts.
• Customized credit control area for Credit Management by defining the credit control area, credit risk categories and credit profile, Assigning Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Variant, Field Status Groups, Document Number Range, Posting Period Variants, GL postings, Sales tax/use tax.
• Configuring Asset Classes, Depreciation areas, Creation of Account determination for assigning GL Accounts - Acquisition, depreciation and Accumulated Depreciation accounts for Asset Classes and also Loss/Gain Accounts for Retirements, Transfers and Write-offs.
• Participated in the testing cycles and testing mocks.
• Created GL, AR & AP Master data to conduct unit testing and integrated testing.
• Participated in Unit and Integration testing phases, provided training to end users and follow-up documentation.
• Provided support to the users on Period/Year closing procedures.
• Assisted end users in running/generating and understanding the standard reports.
• Fixing of end user related errors/issues.
• Resolving tickets and remedies.

Confidential, Hartford, CT
Dec 05 - Aug 06
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Monitor and ensure all global periodic jobs ran properly and completed on daily basis
• Initiate corrective action if jobs fail and review the reasons for its failure and fix the program errors with help of ABAPers.
• Ensure lockboxes and AR reports uploaded successfully on daily basis.
• Investigate, trouble shoot and help enhance system processes in coordination with other team members and initiate discussions with user team and explore options to make the process concurrent and successful.
• Maintain and support issues (both for wholesale and retail categories) that relate to FI/CO/MM related and help identify the problem and re-direct to resources if necessary amongst team members.
• Participate and resolve issues that time-critical and help users to get their data without interruption.
• Write functional specs for any enhancements or if there are any changes in programsdue to changing business needs; document the processes and train users in running the reports or processes properly.
• Merger and migration of company code data from one affiliate to another.
• Worked on Chart of Depreciation, Master Data in Fixed Assets, Lean and Main Implementation in Fixed Asset Accounting.
• Provided support to the users in generating FI-GL Standard Reports for Month/Year-end Reporting purposes and Generated Customized Reports for Managerial requirements by using Report Painter.

Confidential Pittsburg, PA
Oct 04 - Nov 05
Role: SAP FICO Business Analyst

• Involved in all phases of Implementation from development of Business Blueprint to end user training and go live.
• Involved in understanding the Business Requirement, understanding Legacy system functionalities and customizations, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, Gaps identification, Analysis and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.
• Used ASAP Methodology for implementation.
• Involved in Configuring and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements of the client.
• Configured the GL, AP, AR, Bank modules in the SAP system
• Implementation phase: In this phase, customizations were done for organizational structures and defined assignment between organizational structures. Configured chart of accounts with the necessary automatic account assignment configuration. Configured basic organization settings (Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas).
• Set up Fiscal Year Variant, G/L Accounts Group, Field Status variant and Document number ranges.
• Changing the posting periods to allow transactions posted in the particular period by using Posting Period Variant.
• Configured customer and Vendor account groups. Master records as well as one-time vendor and customer master records, account groups, number ranges, field status, tolerance groups and tolerances for each group.
• Configured Automatic payment program – sending Co code, payment co. code, and payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order, and account amounts levels. Created check lots for APP.
• Defined Reason Codes for payment differences and worked on writing of these differences to G/L accounts.
• Configured House Banks, Automated payment program run, payment terms, clearing intercompany vendor /customer open items, lockbox processing.
• Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas, credit risk categories and defined credit representatives groups as per the client requirements.
• Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts for each bank account and created reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Electronic bank statement, check deposits.
• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination using OBYC.
• Provided production support, knowledge transfer and end user training Participated in integration testing for the all the processes.
• Provided support for go-live and production support.

Confidential NJ
Aug 03 - Sep 04
Role: SAP FICO Business Analyst

• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers.
• Examining the company’s document flow vis-a-vis SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Configuring Financial Accounting Enterprise Structure, which involves Chart of Accounts, Company Code, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, and Business Area, maintaining global parameters, defining posting period variant, opening posting periods, assigning document ranges and defining tolerance groups for employees.
• Defining Account Groups and Creating General Ledger Accounts which includes Reconciliation Accounts and Special GL Accounts. Defining Field Status Groups and making fields as Required, Optional and Suppressed as per the requirement.
• Defining House Banks, Check Lots and Void Reason Codes to facilitate proper Check payment. Defining Withholding tax codes, calculating formulas and assigning to company code for automatic calculation of withholding tax in invoice posting and Payment Posting for Vendors.
• Configured the settings for controlling areas, assigned company codes to controlling areas, assigned number ranges.
• Creation of Primary and secondary cost elements, Automatic cost elements creation, Activating Reconciliation Ledger, Number Ranges.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
• In Profit center accounting created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters.
• Created Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to that internal order from different cost centers.
• Mapped SD condition types and FI account keys to the Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) value fields. Reconciliation of PCA to PA for P&L accounts.

ConfidentialBangalore, India
May 02 - July 03
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Designed the Chart of accounts of the Company.
• Designed the FI organization structure and other configuration parameters like posting period variant, Field status groups, Fiscal year variant, Document types etc.
• Basic Configuration of General Ledger, Vendors, Customers and Banks.
• Compilation of the basic data for total FI and CIN configuration like Account assignment structure – MM & SD; Chart of accounts; special GL indicators, GL account groups; Vendor account groups; Reconciliation accounts, Foreign Exchange rate types, Tax codes etc.
• Master data updating: Collected and compiled the data from old legacy system to SAP.